Show EDUCATION AND LABOR the portland news yews thinks that tt the e steady substitution of machine for FO r manual labor renders of pressing importance the relation of the common school to the laboring masses the problem of skilled tabor is ie becoming of more and more importance eo so that tha teven even the politicians polie ician a are beginning to see the necessity of it conceding 4 true education not to be storing the mind with mere facts but the development of all the mental faculties the quickening anaw odthe the whole mental nature ite its practical application to every affair becomes matti mattilea feA As a mans amans powers of observation are quickened and enlivened he be becomes c the more useful citizen the tile distinction between the observing and the non observe observing aing is frequently the distinction between a success acce as and failure dr edwerd edward jarvis of massa blana chue chua ette etts once published an essay on the value of common school education to common labor in which the conditions of successful labor were carefully discussed the position taken by him was that in the performance of all labor of the body there are two things to be considered first the nature mature and character of the material on which the operation ia is to be done second the force forto by which this is to be effected it is necessary to adapt the force to the condition of the matter in which the changes chanes are to be made and to apply it in such a way and nod manner as to produce the desired results without injury to the operator or the subject abject su of the work the carpenter works on wood the smith on metals metal the on clay and the farmer on earth each as the doctor explains must comprehend the nature of the substance to which he applies bis his bands lands or bis his tools and the best way of making this applina ap tion in order to accomplish bis his burp purpose ove this necessity is attached to all the labor of the world mechanics of every grade the coarsest as well as the most refined the wood sawyer the coal beaver the of grayel gravel all como come under the clawy all need to study 01 observe nerve and reflect and in proportion as their minds operate cooperate co with the hands in ratio of the activity and correctness of their perceptive powers pow ers and nod the carefulness ca ref ulness of their conclusions i ions will they succeed in their attempts at work the bifi difference e r in the degree of this cooper co operation of brain with muscle or the habits of observation Tation ana reason ing w with ith the physical movement constitutes utes the diffie difference rence between the successful and unsuccessful in in every sphere of employment the unthinking unskillful worker may be larger and heavier heavier 0 he may be able to lift greater weights and pud strike harder blows yet his exertions are uncertainly directed and may be misapplied no and consequently partially or entirely loat lost these differences in the application of personal force may seen everywhere in world in all departments of labor among mechanics of ever every T occupation cultivators of the earth the hew gewera era of wood all who use their hands tools oe or machines to effect changes in the position relation rela tieu or condition of materiel substance among all there is a ranni manifest fest abild practical difference as to the man ner of applying their forces to their work and as to the effect of their p ar houna auna w uw r irl exertions imerti oil s between the thoughtful a and hd th the thought thoughtless fess between those w whose hose quickened mind lends its aid to their muscular effi effort orts si and the duller workmen whose hands bands alone are given to their possessors and take their chance of pf moving iu in the beet beat and easiest or in the harder and less appropriate way |